Steve Reich, who has been hailed as "America's greatest living composer" by The Village Voice and Composer of the Year 2000 by Musical America, will be the featured guest conductor at the next New Music New Haven concert on Thursday, Jan. 18.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 8 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall, 470 College St. The program will feature three works by Reich -- "Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ," "Triple Quartet" for four string quartets and "Sextet" for two pianos and percussion. Works by Yale composers Nancy Kho, John Kaefer, Keith Murphy, Marcus Maroney and John Orfe will round out the program.

Reich has embraced Western classical music as well as the structures, harmonies and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. In the 1970s, he studied drumming in Ghana, Balinese gamelan at the American Society for Eastern Arts in Seattle and in Berkeley, California, and the traditional forms of cantillation (chanting) of the Hebrew scriptures in New York and Jerusalem. He founded his own ensemble in 1966 and has performed around the world with accompanying musicians since 1971. He has received commissions from numerous orchestras and performing artists, and his music has been performed by major orchestras and ensembles around the world.

In 1997, a 10-compact disc retrospective set of his compositions was released in celebration of Reich's 60th birthday, and in 1999 he won a Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble for his piece "Music for 18 Musicians."

New Music New Haven, directed by Joseph Schwantner, is a School of Music concert series featuring new music.

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